T-DOLL JNRR CHAPTER 6 and 7

Who puts a fortune on top of lipstick is beyond me. This quote is for the kids in HMLIS.
I feel like the characters have good times in front of them.
(mostly because they aren't characters
in one of my serials.) I love SV's final note that the kids are alright !

How My Light Is Spent

I can't imagine a more perfect story built on poetry and music. The cozy New England setting with friends, family and maybe even a little of the impossible. Who else other than SV can blend kick ass rock music with poetry ? When we started this adventure I had no idea how much  we'd be following the mystery and laughing at Corrine's wit. I seriously want to steal Corrine and do writerly things to her. I don't think I'll ever look at bridges the same.

With that said I'm so excited for her to get to work on Vice 2. Vice has always inspired me to push the envelope and be a little bit more edgy and gritter. I'd be lying if I said  Sera Grigori wasn't based a little bit on Sara Grace (the initials was actually not intentional) and Saint. I won't even get started on what this mystery project SHV and Olivia J are working on. Hmm. . . .

Bellum II Update
It's coming together !I've got a timeline going and all I have to do is put the segments together and fill them in with a little editing here and cleaning up. Basically I want to have more than half of it semi-polished before I post.

T-DOLL

So , can anyone tell I'm abridigng T-DOLL ? I'm mostly taking out details so that the chapters added together are  only 6-7K. It's probably not noticeable.


Chapter 6  : Mr. Fierro Becomes A Jerk I used the new Yola editor for this one, so the colors are a little crazy.

Chapter 7 : Mr. Fierro becomes such a jerk I try to write Clara a new love interest.

Exotic Like Oleanders : T-DOLL JNRR ABRIDGED

Picspirations : Parisobel

Serlios

Pariphina

Whew ! I think Bellum might have wiped me out. I try to get started on cleaning up Bellum II and I feel like I need to step back and get really inspired (hint hint, SV). What was great about Bellum is I was working on it during NAF, so I guess what  I really need is a New Thing. I hope I get a New Thing. If only so I can torture you.

Shipping Included?

I'l admit Bellum III isn't done, the last 2/3 is not set in plotting stone. I know how the big pictures ends but the details are very fuzzy. I realize have as little control over my characters than I think I do and one's future is hanging in the balance ? Maybe.

One thing I didn't see (and you all made me think about) was Paris and Seraphina, and if they were doing wrong by Isobel.

In my writerly opinion (read not Word of God, just my general feeling while writing) I don't really think Paris and Sera did anything wrong in relation to Isobel (other than kissing her in chapter 3 , that was bad).

However I set this last chapter to happen after Paris loses his Brothers in an explosion, his proposal  gets turned down and Isobel leaves the state. As for Seraphina  she's had to watch Ares get hanged, watch Hippolyta die in her arms, and she stops talking to Ariel because it was Ariel's fault Hippolyta died.  Both characters are at the end of their emotional string. They both lose the things in their life that made them happy, so they turn to the thing they think will make them feel good.

How will that go ? Well  I guess this me being a hype machine again.


I mostly say this because of my experience with  S&A with Adam and Sofia where the was some real cheating going on. So much so that I'm surprised it wasn't called out as much. Even now I'm kind of surprised about how blatantly Sofia cheats on Tomas. She justifies it all because Tomas isn't a "good person". I have alot of mixed feelings about it. . . the big one being that Sofia sleeps with Adam when she and Tomas are separated. SO MANY FEELINGS. . .  I'll save this for another post.

Enough of that. . . let's talk about my other Serials.

JNRR -

We did the first part of JNRR here. Basically I lay out the entire mystery in the first chapter, so you may want to re-read the top part.

I T-DOLLED parts of these months ago, so all the new comments are in Pink !

TDOLL JNRR (ABRIDGED) 3/4 and 5. The chapter titles are super messed up so  just go with it.

Part 1 wrap up. . . in Gifs Biggest Gif Post EVER (25 + Gifs)

So. . .

But really, let's talk about Pariphina.

Between Hippolyta, Leon, Helios and Paris it seems like everyone wants Seraphina.

 

Early on Paris is happy and in love with Isobel. He wants  to be all

and 

but mostly

of course when they   break up  . . .are on a break. . . Isobel turns down his engagement and goes back to Florida.

 

Sera on the other hand has bigger problems dealing with Helio's craziness

even though she's really attracted to him

but mostly wants to do this to him

  and this

So, a nice guy like Paris is a good change of pace.

Then Paris has to get all 

and she's all like

and he keeps repeating it so she's a little like

So, yeah

Because while Paris is all like

 

Sera just wants 

. . . so they decide to keep up a physical relationship

and he agree because she's pretty

But Paris is making an effort to woo her

 So, Yay

I know, I know

and how.

Now Sera will be taking down SGI from the inside, while Paris is pretending to placate Helios while keeping his relationship (or lack there of) with Sera a secret. Backgrounds will be explored, Aria and Leon get a bigger part. Needless to say when it comes to part two

When I show you part two

But part two will be awhile, it needs a lot of patch work. 

 You can expect a lot more action

and by action I mean

I'm just kidding, but what can you really expect ?

Also

No, really this next section is like a hype section for section three. Section three is kind of intense

This is really a different kind of serial for me and I try to have fun with it. It's been kind of crazy and I've made a few mistakes along the way.

 Sometimes I go to SV for inspiration and you know her

And if I keep stealing things from Vice she get all

Just kidding

 We are chill

But when I read all my random scenes and fragments that are supposed to be Part 2.

I mean, seriously

As for the parts I have written and the outline I forced myself to do, it looks pretty good if I do say so myself.

So, yes Part II might be awhile. Like a month or two.

Okay, back to the trenches

I may post some JNRR T-DOLL for old times sake. I actually can "see the end" of Bellum and it's a little scary. No new plot bunnies are attacking me.

3 Top 40 + 2 Indie = Chapter 12

It's never good when one of these is in a LiLe serial

Spotify Glitch

It seems glitch in my Spotify playlist turned all my Katy Perry song into Teenagee Dream, when the song was supposed to be E.T . I used it from the Blessed Hearts trailer. It's so hard to find a good cover of E.T  I'm suprised no one commented on what an odd choice it was when Teenage Dream showed up in the playlist . . .

In Which I steal More From Vice

There is a line from Vice/Veritas that shows up here. I just realized it. . . it's minor but I wonder if you can spot it. I believe it's something that Jean says ?

Speaking of Vice

For some reason when I was writing Paris going to met with Helios, the enigmatic and untouchable killer who wants to use him,  I started to feel like I could write SV's Noir/Assassin CyberPunk hybrid.  It wasn't until later that I realized Helios taking a picture of the victims (which is stupid because. . . NSA) is just like in The Place They Call The End Of The World

I get a little more Vice-y in Chapter 1 of Bellum II but then I try to be. . . you know. . . original.

Chapter 12 Playlist.

+1+ Dark Horse - Katy Perry
+2+ Burn - Elle Goulding 
+3+ Right Thing - Rose
+4+ Nara - E.S Posthums
+5+ Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke (Go with me here)

Helios has given Seraphina one order. Kill Paris Prince.

Chapter 12

In Which I'm Like Jonah's Car

This is kind of how I pictured the Angel village in chapter 8. Except much higher up.

If I Did It

I think if I were (although I am not doing anything new as of late) to go back into reality-based serials I would probably pull a HMLIS. I would do sort of an AU of Nightmare and have it be about a young couple (stop me if you've heard this) who move to Las Vegas (no really stop me.) while broke and trying to make it in popular Vegas entertainment

I honeslty can't see me doing this because I can't "make story" nor do I want to mess with Nightmare

Muse : Come on, it could be like Penelope gets a Faerie to further punish April and Cillian by making them forget about that summer and make April forget she's a Fae.

LiLe : Um, you mean AU Fanfiction of  my own work ?

Muse : Look at you using the term work , like it's something serious.

No, this is not happening. Feel free to steal.

Plotter-Pantsing Hybrid.

There are days when I wish I could go into more detail about my writing style. The more I think of it I think I'm a half/plotter half pantser. We are almost catching up to the prologue, which mind you I wrote a year ago having no idea what the background events were. I just knew it was a scene that happened after some other. . . stuff.

 So while I plot out key/things-i-want-to-happen points, I'm still pantsing what happens in between.

Admittedly there are times when this screws me over because I'll have trouble making major plot points flow(for example why it snows in the prologue even though it's September) , but I can't imaging pantsing and entire thing like S&A or outlining an entire thing like HOF or JNRR.

Chapter 10

Hippolyta has been captured and Paris is willing to turn against his Brother to set her free. . .

Playlist 

 Chapter 10

+1+ - Latch by Sam Smith (Acoustic) (I love it when the he goes into falsetto)
+2+ - Heart of Stone - Iko (I thought SV stole this one.. .)
+3+ Sure Thing - Miguel
+4+ What I've Done - Marie Digby

Chapter 11

+1+ E.T - Katy Perry
 

Internet Karma

To, Mrs.Vance

*cough* Don't Stop Believin' is a Journey song not Bon Jovi *cough*  (My mother went to way to many concerts for me to forget this !).

To, Ms. Olivia J

Oh, I think if the right idea came along I could dive back into stories based in reality.  I mean right now I'm sort of idea-bankrupt. . . so , yeah.  I need to dive back into S&A but one of the things I picked up in my ABWG pieces is that there is so much arguing. I think I can read about Terry, Grace an Adam/Sofia without cringing.

Fahsion-inspiraiton

I'm so mad because I came across an image of a dagger-shaped hair clip that's mentioned in chapter 8 and I cannot find it again. I wrote Sera's knife being a barrette because of it, I can only hope Internet Karma will cough it back up again. 

With that said here are the images I've been hoarding as fashion inspiration for the Angels. Lots of white clothes, nude shoes and conservative dresses, but still fashionably sexy. It doesnt help that I found a tumblr called Girls In White Dresses


Chapter 9

Hippolyta and Ariel wander into Demon territory and only one makes it back. How far will Seraphina go to get her back ?

Playlist

+1+ Cough Cough - Everything Everything
+2+ Use Somebody - Cover by Tyrone Wells

Chapter 9

Go Fish

Epigraph ?

Maybe not really epigraphs, but a few lyrics in some of the songs really stuck out to me in realtion to the story, so at the very last minute I decided to include them into the chapter headings. I should have mentioned this.

Blog-Block
I  am in a bit of blogging block but I've decided to do something fun. I'm going into my archives and will blog about a post I did this time of year in the past.  Wouldn't you believe all those years ago I was in the trenches with Spirits and Angels.

Not much to say there. Although I did say I had an idea of what S&A would entail. That was a lie.

Also, Sam_L's comment is still true to this day. . . kind of  ?


Chapter 8
Paris is unable to kill Seraphina and vows to find another way, but someone might make the move for him.

Playlist

Today's playlist is bought to you by Twilight and Hunger Games

+1+ Goes On and On - Sleeping At Last
+2+ Kingdome Come- The Civil Wars
+3+ The One That Got Away - The Civil Wars

Chapter 8